Online-Talk by Anke Himmelreich – May 4, 4-6 pm

By Melanie Hobich Comment Closed
We are very happy to announce the next talk in the syntax colloquium this term. Anke Himmelreich will talk about "Variable Affix Order on the Surface: The Case of Turkish". The talk will take place online, please see the information below on how to participate. Title: Variable Affix Order on the Surface: The Case of Turkish Time: 04.05.2020, 4.15 pm Place: Zoom (If you are not a regular member of the syntax colloquium and if you would like to listen to this talk, please contact Katharina Hartmann: k.hartmann@lingua.uni-frankfurt.de. You will be sent a link / ID to Zoom.) Abstract: The Turkish verb has two surface positions for the agreement suffix.  This phenomenon has so far received fairly little attention. Drawing from data involving suspended affixation (Kornfilt 1996), we argue that, syntactically, there is only one position for  the agreement marker (cf. also Kabak 2007) and that the variability of the position is due to  surface-oriented constraints, which additionally derive the pattern of suspended affixation (in...
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Online-Talk by Jan Köpping (GU) – April 30, Thursday 4-6 pm

By Lennart Fritzsche Comment Closed
We are happy to announce a talk by Jan Köpping  (GU) next thursday at the Semantics Colloquium. Please find an abstract below. Since this talk will be held online, please note that you need to register beforehand. To do so, please send an email to koepping@em.uni-frankfurt.de before April 29. You will receive a reply with the access data (to zoom) on thursday at 4pm (= immediately before the colloquium starts). Title: Transparent Negation: Retroactive specification and zilch Date: April 30th Time: 4pm - 6pm Abstract: Judging from examples like the following, negation seems to be capable of blocking the accessibility of potential antecedents in its scope for anaphoric pronouns in subsequent discourse.   (1) No man walks in the park. *He whistles. (2) Peter doesn't own a car. *It's too expensive. On the other hand, there are several examples that cast some doubt on this assessment, be it the ease with which referential expressions outscope negation or the impact on further negation, just to name a few:   (3) Peter didn't...
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Online-Talk by Jonathan Weinrich (GU) – April 23, Thursday 4-6 pm

By Anke Himmelreich Comment Closed
We are happy to announce a talk by Jonathan Weinrich  (GU) next thursday at the Semantics Colloquium. Please find an abstract below. Since this talk will be held online, please note that you need to register beforehand. If you didn't do so yet, send an email to koepping@em.uni-frankfurt.de before April 22. You will receive a reply with the access data (to zoom) on thursday at 4pm (= immediately before the colloquium starts). Title: Gestural referents as SDRT anaphora Date: April 23rd Time: 4pm - 6pm Abstract: Lascarides & Stone (2009) outline a semantic approach to interpreting gestures. They integrate the gestures into the SDRT framework of Asher & Lascarides (2003) and allow them to combine by discourse relations. This involves the usage discourse referents in a DRT-like fashion. While they do not explicitly advocate the idea, a possible interpretation of their examples suggests that all gestural discourse referents are restricted in coreference by the same structural constraints as pronouns. As a start of my research into...
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